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Occasion-sensitivity : selected essays / Charles Travis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Travis, Charles, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Context (Linguistics).
- Truth.
- Meaning (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language. He argues that there are varying conditions of correctness which determine whether words express a given concept, and thus that meaning does not determine truth conditions.
- Contents:
- On what is strictly speaking true
- Annals of analysis
- Meaning's role in truth
- Pragmatics
- Sublunary intuitionism
- Insensitive semantics
- Aristotle's condition
- Are belief ascriptions opaque?
- Vagueness, observation, and sorites
- Attitudes as states
- On concepts of objects
- On constraints of generality
- A sense of occasion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-318) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-34161-4
- 9786611341619
- 0-19-152810-2
- OCLC:
- 244656005
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